Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition

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  1. HealingToolbox
    Sep 9, 2020
    10
    For me, one of the greatest games of ANY game generation. What other game makes so clear--thru its game mechanic, fighting mech dinosaurs--a metaphor for the harmful rule of corporations who stride the earth, rule the Earth, ruin the Earth and the courageous Cultural Creative individuals needed to stand up, resist and defeat them?

    Can you name even one more game making such a bold,    For me, one of the greatest games of ANY game generation. What other game makes so clear--thru its game mechanic, fighting mech dinosaurs--a metaphor for the harmful rule of corporations who stride the earth, rule the Earth, ruin the Earth and the courageous Cultural Creative individuals needed to stand up, resist and defeat them?

    Can you name even one more game making such a bold, progressive statement--in gameplay--about what our real world needs less of and more of?

    The truly human values of Aloy are a welcome relief to me after endless game genres celebrating every flavor of toxic apocalypse.
    Unlike the recent three Tomb Raider reboots (also favorites of mine), Horizon avoids the inconsistencies of the Lara Croft character: alternating between soft and feminine one moment and brutally lethal the next. Aloy is a hard ass, "get it done" character who also has a heart when this is safe and appropriate.    … Expand
  2. Razrback16
    Dec 14, 2020
    5
    Pros:

    * Exceptional graphics / world detail. * Good game controls. * Great character in Aloy (she's a cutie, too). * The machines in the world are just so well-animated and textured. * Stealth combat is a lot of fun - going up against these machines, especially later in the game with the bigger ones is pretty enjoyable because it's like you're being stalked a lot of the time, which    Pros:

    * Exceptional graphics / world detail.
    * Good game controls.
    * Great character in Aloy (she's a cutie, too).
    * The machines in the world are just so well-animated and textured.
    * Stealth combat is a lot of fun - going up against these machines, especially later in the game with the bigger ones is pretty enjoyable because it's like you're being stalked a lot of the time, which makes it pretty fun to sneak around and try to get the jump on them - the machines are also good strategy in the weapons system, too - you can set traps for them and use special arrows to try to exploit weakness and weak spots on the machines.
    * Excellent kill animations on both the machines & humans.
    * On-the-fly adjustable difficulty settings.
    * Very good core story that kept my interest throughout.
    * I have seen some folks talking about bad performance, but overall the game ran really well for me - very smooth once I got all my settings adjusted properly for one video card (since multi-gpu is non functional)

    Cons:

    * No multi-gpu support.
    * A good bit of the narrative / world setup is on the feminism spectrum, which annoyed me. Didn't completely ruin the game or anything, but anytime I see SJW-driven feminism or "down with the patriarchy" type stuff it makes me cringe a bit.
    * Building on the above point, a lot of the men in the game are pretty "soy boyish" - very feminine and weak from their body language to the voice acting for them. And as I'm getting toward the end of the game now (~65 hours in) it's become more and more apparent that the majority of the male characters in the game are either bad / evil, feminine / soy boyish if they are good people, or if they are really masculine men they are painted in some way to be responsible for cataclysmic events, while nearly every female in the game is a hero, of perfect upstanding morals and someone to be worshipped. This devalues the overall core story (which as I noted in the Pros section, is actually pretty good) with its absurdity, lack of realism, and in-your-face gender politics agenda.
    * The melee combat needs more variation - need to be able to counter and have close-up fighting abilities besides just sloppy hit-box swinging and then dodging which is basically all the combat is once you get up close and personal.
    * Late release on PC - released in 2017 for PS4, but took another 3 years or so for the PC release, and they are still asking $50 retail for it - crazy for a 3-year-old game.
    * Game is missing the "Nora Lookout" outfit & Longbow and it's a really cool outfit, so very disappointing to see that missing. Laughable when they call it the "Complete Edition" when it's not complete...

    Game Length: 72 hours - I completed about 99% of the game (including the DLC "Frozen Wilds") - basically everything except for a couple sets of collectibles that I didn't feel added much value to the game / narrative so I didn't bother going after them.

    Overall Rating: 5 / 10 - Due to the feminism narrative angle I covered in the Cons section, I'm really glad I didn't buy this game and opted instead to borrow a copy from a friend as I really don't like giving money to any project that pushes gender / identity politics, feminism, or any form of "wokeness". Disappointing given how the core story itself is very interesting and engaging, but was rendered less enjoyable by the end of the game due to the political agenda of the writing that was needlessly shoved down the player's throat. If you decide to buy it, just buy it when it's heavily discounted.    … Expand
  3. estuspete
    Aug 16, 2020
    10
    I have personally had none of the crazy technical issues that supposedly make the game "unplayable." It has worked perfectly. I moved FOV to 100, turned off FPS limit, Vsync, motion blur, and tweaked some of the graphic settings to balance FPS with fidelity. I couldn't be happier with the game. Obviously the story is amazing, and it has been just long enough since playing the PS4I have personally had none of the crazy technical issues that supposedly make the game "unplayable." It has worked perfectly. I moved FOV to 100, turned off FPS limit, Vsync, motion blur, and tweaked some of the graphic settings to balance FPS with fidelity. I couldn't be happier with the game. Obviously the story is amazing, and it has been just long enough since playing the PS4 version that it feels almost like a new game. For instance, I didn't remember the "secrets" of Zero Dawn, so it was fun to experience again, at 144fps no less!

    I'm running an i7-8770 / 1080Ti / 32gb DDR4 / older SSD w/ 600 mb up/down. The game runs like butter. I did have one technical issue, where the game didn't remember my graphics or key bind changes, and it took all of 3 minutes to restore them to my liking.

    This game is amazing...awesome story, great action gameplay, amazing weapons and upgrades. 9.5/10.    … Expand
  4. Mordecai_253
    Aug 29, 2020
    10
    This game came out Mardi Gras day 2017 and I still remember booting it up after a long fat Tuesday. It was a blast to play then and the polish was really remarkable for a studio with only one moderately popular IP. Still think it's interesting that this and BOTW came out the same year and had very, very similar post-apocalyptic backstories (and some enemy designs). In any case, playing itThis game came out Mardi Gras day 2017 and I still remember booting it up after a long fat Tuesday. It was a blast to play then and the polish was really remarkable for a studio with only one moderately popular IP. Still think it's interesting that this and BOTW came out the same year and had very, very similar post-apocalyptic backstories (and some enemy designs). In any case, playing it three years ago even on a PS4 Pro, I couldn't help but yearn for running it with the full backing of PC hardware.

    So let me cut to the chase, I have been running the latest patch (1.02) without any problems whatsoever being 13 hours into the game at this point. It looks FANTASTIC and my frame-rate is at least average for a heavy game like this in terms of stability. I get 55-70fps (1440p most everything maxxed) most of the time with occasional dips into the 30s and periodic dropped frames, not too unusual but there is room for improvement to be sure.
    I'm running on CPU - Ryzen 2600x GPU - MSI Duke 1080ti 11gb w/ 16gb DDR4
    The dips and drops occur when a lot of models and effects are loaded quickly (i.e when running on a mount into a group of enemies or through a settlement with a lot of NPCs) ; fairly standard hiccups for a graphics heavy game.
    the TLDR: the game has been running phenomenally for me and is more than I could have wished for imagining a PC release while settling for the 30fps on PS4 in 2017. I've read people's performance results have varied substantially especially in previous patch builds of the game. That had not been my experience at all.
    The game itself is a blast, you can read other reviews about the gameplay and graphics. Suffice to say that exploration is fun, combat is very good with a lot of variety in enemy attacks, weaknesses, weapons, and character abilities. The story is more than passable, the world is very large, and most notably, absolutely stunning. This is easily one of the prettiest and artistically stunning games I have ever played on PC.
    The PC performance boo-hoos have been greatly blown out-of-proportion assuming my mainstream PC is fairly representative. If you like action-adventure games and have a decent rig (idk how well this game scales pre-2016/15 hardware) this is absolutely worth checking out.    … Expand
  5. PROPHET7
    Dec 8, 2021
    10
    An open-world masterpiece filled with an amazing soundtrack, stunning visuals, incredible story and creative gameplay.
  6. Skillzaa135
    Aug 8, 2020
    7
    The game is really good. The character settings, the plot and every other aspects of the game play is great including the songs, environment etc. However the main problem lies within the optimization..When I opened the game at first the game forces itself to optimize for you, and the optimization takes like 30 mins and mine freezed at 100% where I had to reboot the pc and restart it, thereThe game is really good. The character settings, the plot and every other aspects of the game play is great including the songs, environment etc. However the main problem lies within the optimization..When I opened the game at first the game forces itself to optimize for you, and the optimization takes like 30 mins and mine freezed at 100% where I had to reboot the pc and restart it, there are stuttering, freezing issues, also low fps.. The devs should've looked into optimization and completely made sure it's ok to launch the game for the consumers.. Heck I don't even mind if they delay the launch date and made sure it's a clear crystal game that we can all enjoy without no optimization issue. So, the conclusion the game is good, there is no doubt.. One of the best single player game in this decade but this pc port is a mess. The optimization is terrible, the devs are already working to fix the issue but why would they release a badly-optimized game like take your time and made the game good enough with no performance issue and test it well and then release it rather than releasing it and then giving out updates and patches to fix the issue...… Expand
  7. jdidangel7
    Oct 8, 2020
    10
    Might be the most beautiful game I’ve ever played! Gameplay is fun and challenging. Good story. Very similar to an open world Tomb Raider game.
  8. MusclePig
    Feb 8, 2021
    3
    The gameplay is ok. Been there, done that, but all in all ok. The wokeness is annoying
  9. Deathbysnoosnoo
    Aug 25, 2020
    9
    One of the best games I've played in a very long time. Beautiful environment , great soundtrack. Game play was really good and the story was very really good. Kept me wanting to keep playing and find out the next part in the story. I took one point do due the pc version constantly crashing on me. A must have game.
  10. actinium
    Apr 19, 2021
    4
    такое чувство, что вся игра делалась вокруг сюжета, а всё остальное - персонажей, побочные квесты, опен ворлд и чистку карты - добавили только для галочки. как итог - основная сюжетная ветка более-менее интересная (только там, где надо по бункерам лазить), а остальной контент - скучная, унылая безыдейная ахинея. особенно раздражает чистка карты, на которую уйдёт часов 40-50.такое чувство, что вся игра делалась вокруг сюжета, а всё остальное - персонажей, побочные квесты, опен ворлд и чистку карты - добавили только для галочки. как итог - основная сюжетная ветка более-менее интересная (только там, где надо по бункерам лазить), а остальной контент - скучная, унылая безыдейная ахинея. особенно раздражает чистка карты, на которую уйдёт часов 40-50.
  11. SexiPlexi
    Mar 14, 2021
    0
    There was so much to like but the dialogue, was just soppy fanny slime....so much of it...would be much better if they spoke 70% less, the main character is just some soppy little girl who gets over emotional about everything, the climbing controls were very clunky and did not make much sense....also the fps was up and down like a yoyo.....but i could handle that more if the story wasn'tThere was so much to like but the dialogue, was just soppy fanny slime....so much of it...would be much better if they spoke 70% less, the main character is just some soppy little girl who gets over emotional about everything, the climbing controls were very clunky and did not make much sense....also the fps was up and down like a yoyo.....but i could handle that more if the story wasn't so soft....these sorts of games need to have the option at the beginning to choose a darker story or a soft story, and choose what gender you want to be, forcing me to play as a stupid ugly little girl ruined the game.… Expand
  12. HunterXJacob
    Sep 6, 2020
    10
    Excellent, beautiful game. I love you Aloy!! Don’t tell my wife (even though she is red headed)
  13. mrsad
    Aug 15, 2020
    0
    Crash, Crash, Crash and again Crash! ports not working... bad graphic and what the hell
  14. tobymaybezz
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    В этой игре мне не понравилось абсолютно ничего.
    Игра по всем параметрам не в моем вкусе и это мягко говоря.
  15. grochu88zc
    Aug 10, 2020
    7
    Optymalizacja leży i kwiczy. Gra mimo ze teoretycznie powinna się odpalić w max detalach na niskich laguje. Często zdarzają się błędy wywalające z gry. W tym momencie mimom ze gra jest piękna jest niegrywalna.

    Optimization is lying and squealing. The game, although theoretically should start in maximum details, on low lags. Bugs that crash the game often happen. At this point, despite    Optymalizacja leży i kwiczy. Gra mimo ze teoretycznie powinna się odpalić w max detalach na niskich laguje. Często zdarzają się błędy wywalające z gry. W tym momencie mimom ze gra jest piękna jest niegrywalna.

    Optimization is lying and squealing. The game, although theoretically should start in maximum details, on low lags. Bugs that crash the game often happen. At this point, despite the fact that the game is beautiful, it cannot be played.    … Expand
  16. Tornan
    Sep 9, 2020
    6
    Wonderful game yet not ported well for PC. I also think that it somehow damaged my GPU.
  17. Kunray
    Aug 18, 2020
    10
    Very interesting and emotional main story line quest surrounded by tons of local quests, trials e.t.c. Main character without charisma, but still pretty good young lady.
    In game main soundtrack and background music in game are top notch.
  18. FrostormNidhegg
    Nov 24, 2020
    9
    Играю в версию из ГОГ. То есть без денуво, пропатченную, без багов и т.д. Так что про глюки и баги ничего не скажу - в ГОГ версии их нет.

    Графика - отличная. И техническая часть - текстуры, модели и т.д., и визуальный дизайн. Сюжет - только начал играть, пока полный идиотизм - у нас есть первобытное племя, которое с помощью луков охотится на гигантских роботов. При том, что у лука    Играю в версию из ГОГ. То есть без денуво, пропатченную, без багов и т.д. Так что про глюки и баги ничего не скажу - в ГОГ версии их нет.

    Графика - отличная. И техническая часть - текстуры, модели и т.д., и визуальный дизайн.
    Сюжет - только начал играть, пока полный идиотизм - у нас есть первобытное племя, которое с помощью луков охотится на гигантских роботов. При том, что у лука пробивная сила околонулевая - чистое фентези. Были бы арбалеты хотя бы с мощной дугой - допустим, там хоть что-то пробить можно, а из лука стрелять по стали - только время тратить, не пробьешь. Ну и сочетание первобытного общества и роботов - лютый идиотизм. Откуда роботы берут энергию, как они ремонтируются и т.д. - никак, магия. Ну и девочка, главная героиня, нашла в заброшенном разрушенном заросшем бункере устройство размером с половину банковской карты, треугольное, толщиной с пять пластиковых карт - и данное устройство конечно же не разрядилось, оно включилось и начало лазерные голограммы пускать метров на 15. Гениально. Физика для лохов, колдунство для пацанов. Сюжет идет от того, что героиня из изгоев и ее притесняют - меня от данной темы блевать тянет, я пропускаю заставки с такой тематикой. СЖВ-говно. Почему изгой, зачем - хз. Разрабы, идите в анус, сами вы изгои. А так - сама героиня нормальная, к ней вопросов ноль.

    Интерактивность мира низкая - следов не остается на снегу или в грязи, ты как бестельный призрак, но мир очень красивый и он открытый. Хотя после Shadow of the tomb raider честно говоря и визуал и нулевая интерактивность очень бьют по глазам. И героиня конечно до Лары даже примерно не дотягивает.

    В целом игра хороша, хоть и довольно много гринда, боевка сложная непонятно зачем. Сюжет идиотский пока, хотя судя по роботам рядом с первобытными людьми - его на что-то адекватное вывести невозможно - наверняка там под землей гигантский комплекс окажется, в который роботы ВСЕ ходят ремонтироваться. И никто конечно гигантский каньон от их ног не видел, ага. Ну и сам комплекс не ломается потому что магия, и источник, питающий сам комплекс - наверно Солнце напрямую. В общем, сюжет заведомо никакой, фентезятина. В целом мир очень слабый, сценаристу дизреспект. Хотя красивый, что есть то есть. Гуманитариям зайдет точно.

    В целом игру советую, пока новых Томб Райдеров нет - вполне себе вариант неплохой. 9 баллов потому что на фоне Томб Райдера и еще некоторых игр игра слаба, но на фоне остального - очень хороша. Ларка стабильно 10, здесь пусть 9 будет    … Expand
  19. Kafkan
    Jun 17, 2021
    7
    Un buen juego que tendría un 8 perfectamente si no fuera por la mala optimización que ha llevado a cabo en su port para PC, no es injugable ni mucho menos pero aún así empaña la experiencia general en un juego que sin llegar a ser una obra maestra, tiene una interesante historia, un divertido, aunque con sus peros, gameplay y que encima después de los años que han pasado desde suUn buen juego que tendría un 8 perfectamente si no fuera por la mala optimización que ha llevado a cabo en su port para PC, no es injugable ni mucho menos pero aún así empaña la experiencia general en un juego que sin llegar a ser una obra maestra, tiene una interesante historia, un divertido, aunque con sus peros, gameplay y que encima después de los años que han pasado desde su lanzamiento sigue luciendo a un nivel bastante alto.… Expand
  20. gameking
    Nov 14, 2020
    9
    Amazing graphics, amazing story and very good game play. I opened this game 3 times and finished. Very good game.
  21. TonyTJ
    Jun 6, 2021
    6
    Historia interesante pero parece un juego de Ubisoft solo q con mas dificultades y lentitud para moverte por el mapa con secundarias insufribles en mi opinión solo renta jugar las misiones principales 6'5
  22. NickV21
    Aug 18, 2020
    0
    Really nice game, much much better then Odysey but, Terrible optimization a lot of bugs and errors,
  23. Hoaaeinshrt98
    Nov 15, 2020
    10
    I'm a PC gamer and always Wanted to Play Your Amazing Games in PC...
    Thank You Sony for Bring Them To US❤️
    Please Do Not Forget US
  24. zzkaiser
    Aug 21, 2020
    10
    Juego que pese a sus fallos, luce igual o mejor que en ps4 cuyo rendimiento es entre 55 y 60 fps, con una 1060, en el peor de los casos 25 fps mas que en ps4. la gente parece olvidar que en ps4 tenia bajones, a recordar que otros juegos iban mucho peor optimizados y les ponían medallas y a este solo criticas de salida
  25. Kadirov
    Jan 4, 2021
    0
    Я уверяю вас - вы уже играли в эту игру несколько сотен раз, даже если вы никогда её не запускали. Просто вас ждёт тот же самый геймплей, что и тысячах других подобных игр. Как в это говно наиграть более 20 минут - мне не ясно. Меня не хватило и на 10, я просто не мог терпеть этот уебищный геймплей, мне было плохо, я альт-табался каждые 2 минуты от скуки, чтобы снова проверить соц-сети.Я уверяю вас - вы уже играли в эту игру несколько сотен раз, даже если вы никогда её не запускали. Просто вас ждёт тот же самый геймплей, что и тысячах других подобных игр. Как в это говно наиграть более 20 минут - мне не ясно. Меня не хватило и на 10, я просто не мог терпеть этот уебищный геймплей, мне было плохо, я альт-табался каждые 2 минуты от скуки, чтобы снова проверить соц-сети.
  26. matiosao
    Aug 13, 2020
    6
    Cool history, gameplay and graphics, but pay almost full price for a game released about 3 years ago and with the amount of bugs and crashes, honestly, better save for Cyberpunk...
  27. lapkina
    Aug 26, 2020
    3
    The game itself is good and beautiful, but sony can **** themselves. Instead of working on a proper port they preferred to outsource it to some low skill low budget slaves. R u kidding me? It crashes every time!
  28. MichaelViet
    Aug 8, 2020
    10
    Good advertisement for buying PS5, the game is really very beautiful and cinematic
  29. Thesiberian87
    Aug 29, 2020
    3
    you can't play, the camera make you sick, stuttering and bugs everywhere.
    on ps it was way better, this is a very bad porting
  30. Andreylyakh1990
    Sep 21, 2020
    10
    Игра супер. Проработка и графика и сюжет. Вначале был минус с багами и вылетами, но сейчас всё это решили. Мне всё нравится!
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#27 Best PC Game of 2020
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#17 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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Metascore
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 50 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. GameGrin
    Jan 10, 2022
    100
    Horizon Zero Dawn truly expresses how videogames nowadays are an art form, if not only through its visuals and storytelling, then certainly through its expertly incorporated combat. A glee-filled experience through and through.
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  2. CD-Action
    Oct 15, 2020
    85
    I had tons of fun with the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn. I appreciated the story, enjoyed exploring the vast, remarkable world crafted masterfully out of extremely diverse elements, and found defeating the largest mechanical beasts to be deeply satisfying every single time. Additionally, the Complete Edition features The Frozen Wilds expansion, which is not only large, but also visually stunning. [10/2020, p.56]
  3. DualShockers
    Aug 25, 2020
    85
    Even with its technological hangups, the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn brings an experience wholly unlike anything else I've ever played.
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